William Pitt. 1759-1806.
Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.[453:2]
Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter perish in its fall.
The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. No. xxxvi.
Footnotes
[453:2] See Milton, page 232.